Sometime around midnight, America will be racist again

Terry McAuliffe is probably going to lose today in Virginia. How the Virginia elections go is a harbinger for the midterms and it looks like a harbinger of doom right now for Democrats.

Even if McAuliffe eeks out a win, which is less and less likely, he should be winning big. Ralph Northam won by nine points. Joe Biden won by ten points. McAuliffe should win by more than five. But he won’t. He is a terrible candidate and has always been a terrible candidate. Last time, McAuliffe only won because of an aggressive third-party challenge designed to bleed votes away from McAuliffe’s opponent, my friend Ken Cuccinelli.

McAuliffe does not have that luxury this time. The wind is at Glenn Youngkin’s back. Education has been the major issue and McAuliffe closed his campaign by claiming Virginia needs to get rid of white teachers in public schools. The Democrats have continually dragged race into the campaign, constantly complaining about racism from the GOP where none existed. Ironically, it is their incumbent Democrat Governor that was either a Klansman or in blackface and he suffered no consequences even as Democrats want a Southwest Airlines pilot fired for saying “Let’s go Braves” with a reporter thinking it was “let’s go Brandon.”

Since November of 2020, Democrats and the press have spent extraordinary energy painting the GOP as an authoritarian party one step away from destroying our republic. The Democrats and the press now view the GOP as an existential threat to democracy and our republic in addition to viewing the GOP as a party of homophobic, transphobic, racist bigots.

Unfortunately for Democrats, the voters see things differently. Despite the constant hair-on-fire press coverage of “Let’s Go Brandon,” January 6th, the latest utterances of Donald Trump, and random stories no one really cares about that are designed to make the GOP look terrible, the voters are dealing with the real world.

In the real world, gas prices are making it more difficult for people to live their daily lives. Food prices compound the problem. Shortages add to the problem. But progressives and the press bellyache that consumerist Americans have it great, Americans are the problem, and Americans need to shut up and get vaccinated.

Meanwhile, these Americans’ friends and family are losing jobs because of vaccine hesitancy and the press vilifies them while Democrats punish them. While all of that is happening, Democrats want to throw even more trillions of dollars at the problem and cause even more inflation.

Today in Virginia, McAuliffe is most likely going to lose and, should he win, it will be closer than it should be.

By midnight, as this reality settles in, the media and Democrats will realize their January 6th and Donald Trump hysteria and screams of racism and various phobias will not have impacted Americans. They will then do what the press and progressives do best — blame the American people. Sometime around midnight, the tears on MSNBC and on social media will muffle the sounds of lament that America is racist again.

Democrats and the press truly believe the GOP is an existential threat to the republic. The voters who disagree are going to become part of that threat. There won’t be any self-reflection by the Democrats on this. They are too emotionally invested in the anti-Trump and anti-GOP narrative. They will only double down on the politics of condemnation.

Everything the left hates is racist. Everyone the left hates should be fired. Every behavior the left engages in is bad when the non-left does it. And they can't understand why voters would rather the GOP come back. Don’t look now, but a plurality of voters thinks Democrats are the bigger threat to democracy in America, according to — get this — NPR News’s own polling.

Democrats should stop to reflect on that and ask themselves what they’ve done. Instead, they’ll declare you all racist and blame Donald Trump.